>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Why does female empowerment bother people? Do they feel women should be subservient? Do they feel women are inferior and should not be glorified in cinema? Are they threatened by challenges to traditional gender roles? I don't get the conservative lizard brain.


It comes down to privilege. A dude who has experienced pop culture produced by men, catered to men, and starring men for as long as he can remember will see female leads, female-produced movies, etc. as a threat. It means they might be losing their privileged position (even though it's really still just a drop in the bucket).

And losing privilege is SUPER scary because it means that at some point these dudes might have to actually compete on their merits. I don't mean compete for anything specifically, just that all the power, privilege, opportunity, etc., in our society have been given to dudes (especially white dudes), for so long just because they're (white) dudes. If things changed and these guys actually had to get ahead by working hard and being decent human beings, a lot of them would be screwed.

At least that's how I see it. The movie looks rad.

Thanks for putting the rape crap in the first few seconds so I know to skip the rest. That stuff just ain't cool.

>> ^gorillaman:
Horseshit. Maybe don't exploit the death of a child to push your suppressive ideology.

As someone already pointed out above, there is a huge difference between having your speech suppressed, and being called out for being a jerk when you say something a jerk would say.

No one is suppressing anyone's right to use "gay" and "fag" as pejoratives. Go ahead, knock yourself out. Depending on the community in which you use them, you might even be praised for it (like, say, Xbox Live, or a KKK rally). But out in the world there are a lot of people who think those words, used in that way, are just not cool. To whine about your free speech being suppressed because someone had the audacity to present some social pushback for using rude epithets is just silly.

So you have a choice. You can insulate yourself further so the only people around you are those who will appreciate "gay" and "fag" slurs being tossed around. Or you can accept that not everyone is going to like that, and that your use of language has consequences.